Title: Bukuru & Sisters (Burundi).c)Stephanie Klein-Davis .2-27-2013.Bukuru Celestin, 20, whose family is from Burundi, sings with two of his six sisters (l)Furaha, 17, and Ephrasie, 14, and the New York Acoustic Fusion band, Snarky Puppy, at Patrick Henr

Title: Marie (Haiti).c)Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 10, 2013.Marie Line-Israel, 34, is from Faugasse, Haiti, in the state of Cayes. She met her husband, Gerald Joseph, 37, through friend's of her father's when they were living in New York. "

Title: Marie's Kitchen (Haiti).Photo taken March 10, 2013.Marie Line-Israel, 34, is from Faugasse, Haiti (The state of Cayes). She loves to cook and prepares food for a neighbor in a basement kitchen on a half-century old stove. She works as a cook at a

Title: Christine African Drummer.c)Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 17, 2013.Christine Irafasha, 17, a Patrick Henry High School student, is in the African Choir at St. Gerard's Catholic Church. They sing once or twice a month both in English and t

Title: MARCELLINE & ADHIEU.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 17, 2013.Marcelline Majyambere carries Adhieu Gon, 14 months, from Nord Kivu, Congo, after attending the Sunday African church service at St. Gerard's Catholic Church on Orange Avenue

Title: Isiah.c)Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 18, 2013.Isiah Ntahomenyereye, 4, from the Congo, plays around in the livingroom of his family's Lansdowne apartment while his siblings were doing homework.

Title: Winda.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Winda Eltaib, 6, Sudanese, stands in the kitchen of their Southwest County home. The family is Muslim.

Title: Sudanese Sisters.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 23, 2013.Winda Eltaib, 6, and her sister, Marwa Eltaib, 17, a senior at Cave Spring High School, have grown up Muslim in Roanoke after Marwa and her family moved to Roanoke from Sudan whe

Title: St. Gerard's African Service.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 10, 2013.Marietta Musavymana, 16, is an alter server helping the Reverend Father Rene Castillo (Phillipines) during the 9:30 African service at St. Gerard's Catholic Church on

Title: Abrahim.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken April 13, 2013.Abrahim Kromah, 17, is from Liberia. He and his famikly have been in Roanoke for six years. He and two of his brothers play soccer with the Lions FC team coached by Mohamud Mahdi from Soma

Title: High School Band Rally.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.(l)Safa Eltaib, 15, and (back) her sister Marwa Eltaib, 17, both Cave Spring High School students are Sudanese. They are Muslim and often wear hijabs. This was a Friday night event at Northside High

STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS [Photo taken April 22, 2013. Maxine Lee is an anesthesiologist for Carilion. She was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was educated in the United States and grew up in Connecticut. She has been in Roanoke for almost 13 years.]

STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | [Photo taken May 05, 2013. Kokou Yemey, 44, is from Aklakou, Togo. He is married to Yaba "Catherine" Sihou, 36, and they have four children. Kokou has been a truck driver for 12 years. He is now an owner/operator since 2009, of h

STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | [Photo taken May 04, 2013. Everlyne Ejeiza Sawyer, 38, is from Nairobi, Kenya. She moved to the United States from Lyon, France. She attended Western Illinois University for undergraduate work. She attended graduate school at Hol

STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | [Photo taken May 04, 2013. Three of the five children Rebecca Mawut, 29 and her husband, Malith Joh, 31, of Southern Sudan, in their bedroom watching television in the Westside Creek apartments: (laying down) Alier Malith Joh, 4,

Title: Winda and Computer.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 23, 2013.Winda Eltaib, 6, whose family is from Sudan, plays on the computer in her Southwest Roanoke County home. She's in first grade at Penn Forest Elementary School. .

Title: Isiah.c)Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 18, 2013.Isiah Ntahomenyereye, 4, from the Congo, plays around in the livingroom of his family's Lansdowne apartment while his siblings were doing homework..

Title: Jebet & JohnIan.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 14, 2013.Jebet Kibogy of Kenya, holds her six-month-old son, JohnIan Kibogy after morning services at St. Gerard's Catholic Church on Orange Avenue in Northwest Roanoke. Jebet has worked as

Title: Nathaniel, Lion FC.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken April 14, 2013.Nathaniel Janivers Scere, 22, has been in Roanoke for six years after moving from Liberia. He plays soccer on the Lion FC team.

Title: David Lion FC-Soccer.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken April 13, 2013.David Yendeh, 27 from Sierra Leone has lived in Roanoke for eight years. He practices soccer at Rivers Edge with his team, Lion F.C., on a Saturday afternoon.

Title: Ousman- Lion F.C. Soccer.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken April 14, 2013.Ousman Turay from the Ivory Coast, plays soccer for the Lion F.C. team made up of mostly men from African countries. He controls the soccer ball against members of the mos

Title: Lion F.C. Soccer Team.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken April 14, 2013.The Lion F.C. Soccer Team is coached by Mohamud Mahdi and Caesar Kalamndala. They are a team made up of mostly men from African nations that include: Liberia, Sudan, the Ivor

Title: Muslim Sisters at Home.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 23, 2013.Winda Eltaib, 6, and her sister, Marwa Eltaib, 17,from Sudan, stand in the living room of their Southwest Roanoke County home.

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Title: Marwa.c) Stephanie Klein-Davis.Photo taken March 23, 2013.Marwa Eltaib, 17, is from Sudan, and came while in elementary school. She is now a senior at Cave Spring Middle School and is going to college in the Fall. She stands near the kitchen windo

STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS [Photo taken April 14, 2013. Violet Ningabiye from Birundi, with her daughter, Elaine Nizeyimana, one-year old, in the hallway at St. Gerard's Catholic Church following the Sunday, 9:30, African service.